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New Exhibition Offers Look Inside Pompeii’s Interiors
Inside the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii in the early 19th century. Detail from a hand-colored engraving by Jules Frédéric Bouchet (draftsman) and Raoul Rochette in Maison du poete tragique a...
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Physiognomy, The Beautiful Pseudoscience
Untitled (Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Vexed Man, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA), 2008, Ken Gonzales-Day. Chromogenic print. Ken Gonzales-Day and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. © Ken...
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Poe-Inspired Prints by Ensor Join Research Institute’s Collection
Hop-Frog’s Revenge, 1898, James Ensor. The Getty Research Institute, 2012.A.73. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels Three prints by James Ensor have just joined the...
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Treasures from the Vault: William Krisel, Southern California’s Architect
William Krisel and Dan Palmer in 1958. Julius Shulman photography archive. The Getty Research Institute, 2004.R.10 The Getty Research Institute is pleased to announce the opening of a new archive...
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Rare Chinese Battle Prints Come to the Getty Research Institute
Ping ding Kuoerke zhan tu, or Pictures of the Campaigns against the Gurkhas (i.e., Nepalese), China, ca. 1793. The Getty Research Institute, 2012.PR.33 The Getty Research Institute has acquired an...
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New Online Resource to Reveal Stories about Nazi-Looted Art, Wartime Art Market
Paintings in storage at the Munich Central Collecting Point, ca. 1945–49, Johannes Felbermeyer. This was one of several sites used by the Allies to identify, photograph, and restitute Nazi-seized...
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Treasures from the Vault: Robert Mapplethorpe Papers and Photographs
Self-portrait, 1970s, Robert Mapplethorpe. Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Held at the...
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Beware Cupid’s Arrow! French Print Reveals Dangers of Romantic Mix-Ups
“Hide your heart from sight, Lock your dreams at night, It could happen to you.” While the presumably dreadful “it” referred to in the opening verse of “It Could Happen to You,” one of my favorite...
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Harry Smith’s Archives and Collections Now at the Getty Research Institute
Harry Smith at Allen Ginsberg’s Kitchen Table, New York City, 16 June 1988, 1988, Allen Ginsberg. © Allen Ginsberg LLC The Getty Research Institute has acquired the archive of Harry Smith (1923–1991),...
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Treasures from the Vault: Beatrice Monti della Corte and the Americans
Beatrice Monti della Corte, 1962, Alexander Liberman. The Getty Research Institute, 2000.R.19 A young Italian baroness founded a gallery of contemporary art in Milan in 1955 that she named Galleria...
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Publishing German Sales, A Look under the Hood of the Getty Provenance Index
The Getty Provenance Index® is the first digital humanities project at the Getty, one that has paved the way for many subsequent endeavors. Since the early 1980s, this collection of databases has...
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Getty Voices: Our L.A.
What special places tell the story of your L.A.? This week on Getty Voices, Lyra Kilston and Chris Alexander of the Overdrive curatorial team explore the personal stories that knit the buildings and...
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Treasures from the Vault: The Man of La Belle Ferronière
With offices in London, New York, and Paris, the Duveen Brothers were one of the most influential art dealers of the early 20th century. They molded American taste in art from Barbizon paintings and...
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Treasures from the Vault: Harald Szeemann’s “Project Files”
How the pioneering curator revitalized and expanded the Venice Biennale Behind the scenes at the Venice Biennale. At left, Harald Szeemann inspects construction progress; at right, artwork crates...
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Philipp Otto Runge’s “Times of Day,” A Monument of German Romantic Art
Morning from Times of Day, 1805, Philipp Otto Runge. Printmaker: J.G. Seyfert. Etching and Engraving. The Getty Research Institute, 2013.PR.35** Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) is not a household name...
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“The Everlasting Cycle of Becoming and Fading”: Thomas W. Gaehtgens on...
Day from Times of Day, 1805, Philipp Otto Runge. Printmakers: Ephraim Gottlieb Krüger and Johann Adolph Darnstedt. Etching and Engraving. The Getty Research Institute, 2013.PR.35** Philipp Otto Runge’s...
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Gallery at the Getty Research Institute Undergoing Dramatic Expansion
Something is missing at the Getty Center—and something new is coming. The Getty Research Institute Gallery, home to rotating exhibitions featuring objects from its rich special collections, is closed...
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Life Before eBay: British Art Auctions at the End of the 18th Century
A giant of the British art market: Portrait of James Christie, 1778, Thomas Gainsborough. Oil on canvas, 49 5/8 x 40 1/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 70.PA.16. Gift of J. Paul Getty The Getty...
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Treasures from the Vault: Harald Szeemann, From Vision to Nail
Harald Szeemann during the installation of documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany, 1972. Photo by Balthasar Burkhard. The Getty Research Institute, Harald Szeemann papers, 1892–2010 In 1969, Harald Szeemann...
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Subterranean L.A.: The Urban Oil Fields
The best-known legends surrounding the early days of the City of Angels involve water and Hollywood, with both intersecting dramatically in the film Chinatown. However, as the exhibition Overdrive:...
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